On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:22:06AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Symlinks are handled within portage differently to regular files. Regular > files get an mtime check and are removed if it matches. Symlinks don't get an > mtime check (even thought the mtime is stored) and are only removed if the > symlink's target doesn't exist. Hence, it seems to be this way by design. Why > it's this way? Who knows. It's been that way for longer than anyone can > remember which is why _it's so important that bugs get filed_.
Honestly, I thought it was supposed to be like that, since collision-protect also doesn't protect against packages overwriting each other's symlinks (package A and package B can both create /dummy -> bin without any problems from portage). Do you want a bug report for that?
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